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“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.”
― The Things They Carried / In The Lake Of The Woods
― The Things They Carried / In The Lake Of The Woods
“Yes, I began my journey alone, and I ended it alone.
But that does not mean that I walked alone.”
― Oathbringer
But that does not mean that I walked alone.”
― Oathbringer
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
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